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Programmatic Music

My decision to put programmatic content/titles with my music  came in the early 70’s.  I had been conditioned, like all young composers then, to see programmatic music as inferior to absolute music.  I was told that many superficial, nineteenth-century works with programmatic titles would not hold the audience’s attention without their programs. I heard some of those pieces.  They were so poorly put together that I’d have quickly lost interest if I hadn’t been ...